3. "Rubber!" B & W photograph of a man opening a door on an unsuspecting bathing lady. The words Rubber! are actually hand-inked onto the postcard -- yet the card has no handwriting on the back. Very Curious!! It is unknown who wrote their own caption here, and what it means. The writing is in an old ink, so it was written about the time it was printed. On the back it says "Post Card" in 10 languages - none in English. I would imagine this card was sold in Europe originally.[Tom Sayeau has sent in a possible explanation for the curious caption: "One, it's a play on words: rubber,
rub her; although honestly, I don't think much of that explanation myself.
Two, it's from an old slang phrase about "have a rubber at that" [rubber,
rubber-neck, look at]-which explanation I favour."]
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